This performance review of the European Development Fund (EDF) examines the fitness for purpose of EDF11 with Council regulation 2015/322 on the implementation of the 11th EDF. The EDF focuses on economic, social and human development as well as regional cooperation and integration and is one of...

This report summarises the main views and suggestions expressed by the respondents to the various questions contained in the joint consultation paper 'Towards a new partnership between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries after 2020’ of 6 October 2015 (JOIN(2015)...

This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international partners. The EU is a pivotal player in...

The main challenge that OCTs face consists in putting their economies and societies on a sustainable development path by increasing their competitiveness, reducing their vulnerability to external shocks, increasing environmental resilience, cooperating with their neighbours and, where possible,...

This evaluation covers European Commission support to agricultural commodities in all Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries over the period 2000-2009 in the context of the policies and approaches laid down in two Communications that set out the European Union’s (EU) Action Plan for...

This document contains the detailed instructions and guidance for the EEAS, DEVCO services and EU Delegations for the programming of the EU's bilateral development cooperation with partner countries and regions in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) under the 11th European Development...

Most of the world's developing countries have been colonies under one of the EU Member States. Today the European Union pursues preferential policies (in the form of special legal relationships) towards most of these former colonies. These preferential policies however differ rather...

This evaluation assesses the Investment Facility (IF) and EIB Own Resources (OR) operations in the African, Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) countries and the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) over the period 2003-2009, implemented respectively within the framework of the Cotonou...

The paper investigates how abusive use of EPA provisions for sanitary, phytosanitary and technical barriers in EPAs could be an obstacle to market access. The study also promotes experience sharing among different ACP regions in terms of drawing up negotiating positions. The issues covered...

This study focuses primarily on trade preferences offered by the European Union (EU) and in particular on the Everything But Arms (EBA) trade preferences regime, which is targeted exclusively on least developed countries (LDCs). Using the gravity model, an estimation of the influence of the EBA...

The direct effects of EPAs on ACP countries arise from the requirement to eliminate tariffs on most imports from the EU. While consumers gain from cheaper imports, the government losses tariff revenue and producers face increased completion, implying adjustment costs. This paper estimates the...

The paper provides an analysis of different rules of origin that currently apply between the EU and the ACP countries in sectors like textile and clothing, and fisheries. With the end of the Cotonou agreement and its replacement by the still incomplete EPAs, the rules of origin provisions...

This issue paper, titled “Environmental Issues in Economic Partnership Agreements: Implications for Developing Countries”, and written by Mrs. Beatrice Dove-Edwin, is a contribution to that process. The paper exhaustively reviews all rules related to trade and environment in several of the...

The rise and fall of preferential trade -- Understanding the EU-ACP economic partnership agreements: the case of the Cariforum -- European policy diffusion and the politics of regional integration in the Pacific -- Developmentalism and the political economy of trade adjustment in Mauritius --...

Economic opinion is in the process of re-interpreting low levels of uptake of non-reciprocal pre-ferential trade agreements (PTAs) partly in terms of administrative barriers to preference utiliza-tion. Primary amongst these barriers are Rules of Origin. This paper reviews the literature on Rules...